Re: [PATCH] generic/285: discover allocation size for NFS

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On 16 Oct 2016, at 3:17, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 06:28:37AM -0400, Benjamin Coddington wrote:
>> On NFS, try to discover the allocation size for the exported filesystem.
>> NFS st_blksize is optimized for the network, and will usually be much
>> larger than the allocation size of the exported filesystem, which may
>> trigger preallocation strategies in the exported filesystem causing the
>> seek tests here to fail.
>
> Is there a reason not to use your new evidence-based check for all
> file systems?

Only that on the filesystems I've checked (ext4, xfs, btrfs, tmpfs)
st_blksize is correct, so trying to discover it is unnecessary.

Ben
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